The Rutgers football team beat Army and the rain Friday night as freshman quarterback
Tom Savage picked up his first career road win in a 27-10 decision.

Hundreds to counter
anti-Semitic protest
BY JOHN S. CLYDE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MAYA NACHI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sigma Delta Tau members perform a “Waking up in Vegas” theme dance, securing first place in the “Derby Days Lip Synch.” Zeta
Tau Alpha sorority was named the overall Derby Days winner. Check out PAGE 4 for photos from last week’s events.

Sisters of five sororities in the
National Panhellenic Conference
and brothers of the Iota Psi Chapter
of the Sigma Chi fraternity danced
the night away Saturday at the
“Derby Days Lip Synch” to raise
awareness for a variety of philanthropic organizations.

of which are Sigma Chi’s philanthropies — and for each of the sororities’
philanthropies, said Derby Days
Director Gregory Smith.
Half of the proceeds raised by each
sorority go to their individual philanthropies and the other half goes to the
Children’s Miracle Network, he said.
“It’s not only having the sororities

SEE CHARITY ON PAGE 7

When picketers from the
Westboro Baptist Church
arrive
on
the
Banks
Wednesday at 8:45 a.m.,
Rutgers Hillel plans to greet
them with a sea of red.
The
Jewish
student
organization is joining with
other organizations around
campus to counterprotest
the
Kansas-based
antiSemitic, anti-Catholic and
anti-gay Westboro Baptist
Church, which is scheduled
to picket outside Hillel
House for 30 minutes.
“In the face of this kind of
assault, we will not stand idly
by,” said Student Board
President Hilar y Neher on
behalf of Hillel. “We join with
our brothers and sisters at
Rutgers — across ethnic, religious and gender lines — to
condemn the blind hatred
spewed by these people.”
Neher said anyone is welcome to join the Hillel event
as long as they work to make
it safe and do not bring offensive signage that will provoke
the group.
“The event will likely consist
of songs and readings from different students and student
groups on campus,” Neher said.

At press time, about 2,400
people have indicated they
will attend the counterprotest on Hillel’s Facebook
event, which is not the only
event on Facebook.
Hillel plans to gather outside of their building, located
at 93 College Ave., at 8:30
a.m. and is encouraging people to wear red University
apparel in solidarity.
Students began to organize
counterprotests after the news
of the protest was published,
Neher said.
“At that point, we realized
that Hillel had a choice,”
Neher said. “Either we could
close our door and go about
business as usual with many
dif ferent disjointed groups
of students protesting outside our building, or we
could make the decision to
act in hopes not only of combating the message of hate,
but of unifying our campus
in a way that has not been
done in a long time.”
The Rutgers University
Student Assembly unanimously approved a resolution at
their Thursday night meeting,
supporting Hillel and calling
for students to unite against
hate speech.

SEE PROTEST ON PAGE 7

SORORITIES COMPETE IN ‘DERBY DAYS’ TO BENEFIT PHILANTHROPIC GROUPS

INDEX
UNIVERSITY
Today’s section
highlights the
different ways in
which the University
gave back to its
neighboring
communities over
the weekend.

OPINIONS
A man was arrested
for indecent exposure
while walking around
nude in his own
home at 5:30 a.m.
Does he deserve jail
time or has society
gone too far?
UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3

The Iota Psi chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity at the
University kicked-off its 22nd annual Derby Days “On the
Banks” last Sunday with a week of monetary and non-monetary competitive events among six sororities.
As the largest greek fall fundraiser, half of the funds raised
by each sorority benefits the Children’s Miracle Network at
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Huntsman
Cancer Foundation — the fraternity’s philanthropies. The
rest will benefit each sorority’s philanthropic organizations.
“The most important thing about this event is that
I know they did it to raise money for all these great
causes,” said Derby Days Director Gregor y Smith.
“Not only that, I know ever ybody had fun, and I hope
this helps bring the greek community together a little
bit as well tie in the Rutgers community.”

of Derby Days held in various locations
throughout campus.
The greeks put on their thinking caps Wednesday
night at the Jeopardy/Charity Information Night in
Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus and Sigma
Kappa won first place, Smith said.
Sisters of each sorority bid on the brothers of
Sigma Chi at the Brother Date Auction Thursday night
in Voorhees Hall of the College Avenue campus.
Numbers picked out of a hat indicated the points
going toward each sorority’s total and funds bid on each
brother was counted toward charitable donations, Smith
said. Zeta Tau Alpha won first place.
— Ariel Nagi

HALLOWEEN MASH-UP

U. delays deciding if federal policy that bans men who have
sex with other men from donating blood is discriminatory

OPINIONS . . . . . . . 10
DIVERSIONS . . . . . . 12

The field event competition on Sunday featured an
obstacle course, a relay race and a tug-of-war, said
Smith, a Rutgers College senior. Sigma Delta Tau
sorority won, earning a total of 2000 points.
The week continued to unfold Monday with “Penny
Wars,” a highly competitive game where sororities collected pennies to count toward their overall points as well
as their total money raised, Smith said. Zeta Tau Alpha
won the war, set up on the steps of Brower Commons on
the College Avenue campus.
Any silver coins, dollar bills and checks thrown into
any of the teams’ jars were counted as negative points
but still counted toward charitable donations, Smith said.
Sorority sisters signed the brothers’ T-shir ts on
Tuesday’s “Sign-a-Sig,” a non-monetar y event

Confusion, controversy and
heated debate filled the
Multipurpose Room of the
Rutgers-Camden
Campus
Center
during
Friday’s
University Senate meeting.
After
deliberation
on
whether barring men who
have sex with men from donating
blood
violates
the
University’s nondiscrimination
policy and if blood drives
should be banned if it does, the

Senate split the report and
tabled the statement regarding
whether it violates the policy.
The rest of the repor t
passed unanimously while
about seven senators and
members of the public spoke
against the controversial single sentence, which stated
“policies of barring blood
donations of men who have
sex with men is not a discriminator y practice that
violates Rutgers’ nondiscrimination policies.”

SEE REPORT ON PAGE 8

JENNIFER KONG

Eight-year-old city resident Freddie Rameriz, right, plays a game of darts at “Monster Mash” on Saturday at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. More than 1,000 children participated in the Halloween
experience sponsored by 75 organizations. See UNIVERSITY on PAGE 5.

Krystal Skinner’s ex-boyfriend
stabbed her to death in March
2008 in her Lindenwold, N.J.
home. A Rutgers-Camden senior,
Skinner’s unharmed 2-year-old
son was with her body when police
entered the house.
More than a year later, her
memor y is a powerful impetus
to domestic violence awareness.
To recognize October as
domestic violence awareness
month,
the
University’s
Undergraduate Social Work
Organization sponsored a 5k
walk Saturday, where about 150
walkers donated money to the
Kr ystal
Skinner
Memorial

Scholarship Fund before embarking from Brower Commons on
the College Avenue campus to
Buccleuch Park with a banner
in hand.
“Kr ystal was so bright and
vibrant,” said DuWayne Battle,
University School of Social
Work’s Baccalaureate Program
director. “This event is really
about celebrating her life.”
Battle, who created the
scholarship fund, said this walk
is the fourth fundraising event.
While USWO raised about
$7,000 before this event, it must
reach $100,000 before the
University will recognize the
scholarship program. A total of
$9,364 donations was counted
near the end of the walk.

The official color of domestic
violence awareness, purple,
adorned the activists’ outfits.
Tethered balloons, banners
and tables of food welcomed a
growing crowd of students, philanthropists and social workers
while two DJs played music.
Members of the Skinner family were present at the event,
including her mother, two aunts
and her son. Skinner’s aunt,
Theresa Johnson, said she was
encouraged by the turnout
and support.
“I feel very good,” Johnson said.
“Krystal is with us today. She would
be happy to know that she’s still
working through other people.”
Skinner received her baccalaureate in social work

posthumously and was only two
months from graduation when
she was murdered, USWO Vice
President Sara Afayee said.
“Krystal was a social worker
like us,” said Afayee, a Livingston
College senior. “It’s ironic that
domestic violence knocks on our
own doors.”
Johnson said domestic violence is an issue that often gets
ignored, and that alone makes it
very dangerous.
According to the Bureau of
Justice, 1,181 women died because
of domestic violence in 2005 in the
United States alone and one in
three women will suffer from
domestic abuse in their lifetime.
The event was also in honor of
Letizia Zindell, a former University

student. Zindell’s ex-fiancé murdered her in August, said President
of USWO Eileen Marra, a School of
Arts and Sciences senior.
Several speakers, including
Battle, gave thanks to everyone
who came and expressed optimism for the memorial fund. A
number of partnered organizations were present, including
Women Aware, Inc., Rutgers
Sexual Assault Services and
Crime Victim Assistance and
Voices of 9/11.
Marra said the organization is
planning more fundraising events
for the spring, including more
walks and a concert benefit.
For information on USWO or
how to donate, individuals can email Marra at ruuswo@gmail.com.

‘Day of Service’ produces variety of donations for local community
BY JUSTINE D’SOUZA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students took a break from
studying Saturday to make
quilts and jewelr y to supporting
a variety of causes at the third
annual
“Scarlet
Day
of Ser vice.”
Held at the Livingston
Recreation Center, the service day
attracted more than 250 student
volunteers,
said
Program
Coordinator for University Student
Involvement Heather Mullendore.
“We’re building relations
and learning about needs of the
community,” Mullendore said.
Volunteers had the choice of
either working on campus or
off campus.
On campus, volunteers
made surger y dolls with

Project Sunshine, a nonprofit
organization that provides free
recreational, educational and
social programs to children facing medical challenges, said
Bead the Cure member
Rosemarie Dizon.
Participants also made jewelr y with Bead the Cure, an
organization that makes and
sells jewelr y for breast cancer
research organizations, and
quilts for Quilts for Kids, a nonprofit organization, Dizon said.
Off campus, volunteers cleaned
up parks including Johnson Park
in Piscataway and volunteered at
senior citizen homes for organizations such as Rutgers Gardens
and Arc of Somerset County,
Mullendore said.
Participants visited food pantries
in New Brunswick such as the

Trinity House, and mentored
teenage students in Bridgewater.
“[There was] landscaping and
cleanup work,” Mullendore said.
“Some people worked with
teenagers. They told them what
college was like.”
Volunteers helped move furniture at the New Brunswick Public
Library, and they cleaned up the
After School Drop-In Center in
Highland Park, Mullendore said.
They finished painting the youth
group lounge and set up the
social hall.
Keynote
speaker
Tara
Abbott from Arc of Somerset
opened the event by recounting
success stories of people who
learned about different volunteer pathways and what a profound influence volunteering
had on their lives.

“What I am getting at is
there is a variety of volunteer
oppor tunities
out
there,”
Abbott said. “Anything that
you are doing is making
a difference.”
Students could participate in
ser vice projects individually,
but some took part in group
work. Fraternities, sororities,
student organizations and residence halls composed most of
the groups.
Dizon said she was pleased
with the large number of volunteers this year.
“Personally, I think this is a
good way of giving back,” said
Dizon, a School of Arts and
Sciences sophomore. “It’s a different means of service.”
She said there was more help
available this year.

“We had to get an extra table.
More [volunteers] turned out
than we expected,” Dizon said.
Dean Shull, a board member of
Quilt for Kids, said the event was a
success, and he plans to come back
for the next “Scarlet Day of Service.”
“Everybody loved what they
were doing,” Shull said.
The “Scarlet Day of Ser vice”
was a success because departments and students came
together to help the community
they all live in, Mullendore said.
Potential
volunteers
are
always welcome for next year’s
day of service, she said.
“We do this event ever y
October. Look out for advertisements,” Mullendore said.
“There are lots of community
oppor tunities on the … Web
site, getinvolved.rutgers.edu.”

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

22ND ANNUAL DERBY DAYS

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

STEPHANIE YEE

As the largest greek fundraiser
this semester,
six sororities competed in
various events for Sigma Chi
fraternity’s 22nd annual “Derby
Days.” Top left,
sorority members sign the
shirts of Sigma Chi brothers at
Tuesday’s “Sign-A-Sig” event.
Top right, a Sigma Chi brother
dances at Thursday’s “Brother
Auction.” Left, Zeta Tau Alpha
— the overall
winner of Derby Days —
performs an army-themed
dance at Saturday’s Lip Synch
event in Nicholas Music Center
on Douglass campus. Bottom
left, Sigma Chi brothers dress
as girls and perform a dance to
Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls
Go Bad” before the winners
were announced. Below, Derby
Days Director Gregory Smith
leads Sigma Chi
brothers and sisters of
various sororities in a game of
“Jeopardy.” All proceeds raised
for Derby Days will benefit local
charities.
MAYA NACHI/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

More than 1,000 children
dressed up in Halloween costumes, played games and won
prizes at the Cook/Douglass
Recreation Center Saturday
during the sixth annual
“Monster Mash.”
“In the first hour, we had
[more than] 200 children,” said
Matt Zielinski, coordinator of special programs for University
Residence Life.
“Monster Mash” was originally a Cook College event, but
when the schools combined, the
Residence Hall Association,
Cook/Douglass
Residential
Campus
Council
and
Cook/Douglass Residence Life
took it on, said SEBS/Cook
Council President Steven Le.
“When
Cook/Douglass
Residential Council first took on
‘Monster Mash,’ we had about 27
organizations, and when we did it
for the second time, we had 43
organizations. This year, we put
in a lot of hard work and got 75
organizations,” said Le, a School
of Environmental and Biological
Sciences sophomore.
Representatives from greek
life, SEBS/Cook Council, residence halls, the Seeing Eye
Puppy
Raising
Club,
Galvanizing and Organizing
Youth Activism at Rutgers and
many other organizations also
participated in the event.
Activities included — but
were not limited to — a mummywrapping contest, a henna tattoo

station, face painting and various
crafts. One of the more unique
activities
was
the
Cook
Apar tment Government’s version of mini-golf.
“The
Cook
Apar tment
Government took the time to
make an actual mini-golf station,” Le said. “[The] Latin
American Student Organization
used the racquetball court and
transformed it into the ‘Tunnel
of Terror and Treats,’ where the
kids had to go through a haunted
tunnel.
Rockof f
Hall
Government [taught] the kids
to do Michael Jackson’s
‘Thriller’ dance.”
“Monster
Mash”
transformed the Halloween tradition
of collecting candy into awards
for the children.
“Instead of just receiving candy,
[the kids] have to earn it, so that
gives them a sense of accomplishment,” said Katzenbach Residence
Hall Government Treasurer
Deepa Balavijayan, a School of
Environmental and Biological
Sciences first-year student.
Volunteers garnered a similar
sense of accomplishment.
“There was a benefit of providing children with a place where
they could enjoy the essence of
Halloween without the dangers of
going door to door in a dangerous
area,” said Ashwini Dhokte, a volunteer for the Foundation for the
International Medical Relief of
Children and a School of Arts and
Sciences first-year student.
A distinguishing factor of
“Monster Mash” was the broad
range of participants.

JENNIFER KONG

Ahjae La’Boo, 6, from Monmouth Junction, fishes for pumpkins and skulls at Saturday’s sixth annual
“Monster Mash” at the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. The bash is held for children to experience
Halloween fun in a safe environment as opposed to a potentially dangerous urban neighborhood.

“For the past six years, this
was exclusive to New Brunswick.
We’ve extended it to children of
Piscataway, Highland Park and
North Brunswick. We’re definitely glad [the kids] had fun tonight,”
said SEBS/Cook Council Vice
Chair Alex Menillo, a School of
Arts and Sciences sophomore.
Planning for the event began
in June, Le said.
“I contacted a lot of schools.
We put up a lot of flyers in residence halls and had a huge
Facebook group,” said Vice

Chair of Douglass Campus
Shalini Sinha, a School of Arts
and Sciences first-year student.
Parents appreciated “Monster
Mash” for bringing the family
together at no cost.
“[We came] so that we can go
out and just have fun … on a
budget,” said Cynthia Fountain,
a local resident. “A lot of things
cost a lot of money, which we
don’t really have.”
New Brunswick resident Fred
Ramirez expressed happiness
because his children won free

books from the G.O.Y.A. project’s
activity table.
When asked if he and his
family would attend “Monster
Mash”
again,
he
said,
“Absolutely. 4,200 percent.”
For those who missed this
year’s “Monster Mash,” there is
still a chance to get involved
next year.
“We love doing it. It’s really
rewarding to give back to the
community,” Menillo said. “It’s
the greatest feeling to see all
the smiles on kids’ faces.”

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PROTEST: Organization
to demonstrate at 12 NJ locations
continued from front
“RUSA suppor ts Rutgers
Hillel, as well as the Jewish
community as a whole in addition to [lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender], Catholic and
other communities targeted by
the Westboro Baptist Church’s
messages,” said RUSA Chair
Werner Born, reading from
the resolution.
Neher said Hillel was very
grateful the RUSA passed
the resolution.
“It shows a great deal of support and helps us in our aims of

CHARITY: Zeta Tau Alpha
named 2009 Derby Days winner
continued from front
compete to raise money for philanthropy, but it’s a way to establish
relationships among the five sororities,” said Smith, a Rutgers
College senior. “Everyone is out to
win, but everyone knows the reason we put on Derby Days is
because it’s always a success and
we’re raising money for all of these
really great philanthropies.”
Zeta Tau Alpha was the grand
winner of Derby Days, raising the
most money and gaining the most
points in the weeklong string of
competitions, Smith said.
Jamie Dinardi, Zeta Tau Alpha
“Derby Diva,” said the organization was excited to win because
they did not participate in Derby
Days last year.
She is glad they are able to
suppor t
the
Children’s
Miracle Network and their philanthropy, the Breast Cancer
Research Network.
“We just hope to help out in
any small way possible,” said
Dinardi, a School of Arts and
Sciences senior.

OCTOBER 26, 2009

7

uniting the University community,” Neher said.
About 10 protesters from the
Westboro Baptist Church, which
is known for protesting at funerals of American servicemen, are
expected to protest outside Hillel,
said Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member and attorney for the group.
The group is scheduled to
protest at 11 other New Jersey
locations on Tuesday and
Wednesday, according to their
Web site. Prior to coming to the
University, the group is scheduled to protest outside New
Brunswick Public High School.
There is some concern about
the size of the event at the
University, and New Brunswick
police officers will be present,

said RUSA Legislative Affairs
Chair John Aspray, a School of
Arts and Sciences junior.
He said many places chose not
to counterprotest the group, but
that is not the sentiment among
many at the University.
Born, a School of Engineering
senior, encouraged members of
the community to remain calm.
“It’s important for ever yone
to know that these people make
all their money by suing people,” Born said. “If you do go to
this event, if you participate in
anything that goes on that day
[it’s impor tant that you
remain peaceful].”
Students should avoid talking
to the members of the Westboro
Baptist Church because these

efforts will not change the
group’s opinions, Born said.
“Some time ago at Rutgers,
there was a similar instance
where a group came to protest
gays and lesbians on campus and
[the University] to something
very similar to this,” Born said.
“[The University] told the group
that anyone wearing jeans was
ignoring [the group].”
Other religious groups around
campus have also voiced their
support of Rutgers Hillel and
opposition to the Westboro
Baptist Church.
“Jesus was not someone who
would want people to be bantered and to be called names
and to be told that ‘God hates
you,’” said Community Group

Coordinator
for
Campus
Crusade for Christ Sarah
Nitchman,
a
School
of
Environmental and Biological
Sciences junior. “For me, that’s
totally the opposite of what
Christianity is all about and to
see groups like the Hillel being
targeted in that way, with this
totally
negative,
unloving
methodology, it just nauseates
me. … It’s just not right.”
Campus Crusade for Christ
wants to support Hillel and all
of the groups targeted to show
that the University is united
against the message of the
Westboro Baptist Church, said
Co-President Andrew Yassa,
a junior in the School
of Engineering.

The sisters worked hard to
raise the most money and on their
lip synch performance, Zeta Tau
Alpha sister Amanda Abramo said.
“We really, really wanted it,”
said Abramo, a Mason Gross
School of the Arts junior. “We
practiced so hard — like
ever y night.”
Sigma Delta Tau won firstplace in the lip synch after performing their “Waking Up in
Vegas” theme.
Alisa Purifico, Sigma Delta
Tau “Derby Diva,” said the lip
synch was meant to be fun, but all
the hard work put into it was
mostly an effort to raise money
for the Children’s Miracle
Network and their philanthropy,
Prevent Child Abuse America.
“We’re really hoping to just
bring our sorority together and
really just gain spirit,” said
Purifico, a School of Arts and
Sciences junior. “When we’re up
there dancing, all we’re really
doing is thinking about all of the
children we’re helping, and all the
girls feel the same way.”
The lip synch opened with
the emcee of the night, Kaitlin
Clutter, an elected spokeswoman for the Children’s
Miracle Network.

Kaitlin, 9, who is battling spina
bifida, said she was thankful for
the organizations’ support.
“I’m really, really excited,” said
Kaitlin, who was elected as the
only spokesperson for the network in the state. “I think it’s
going to raise a lot of money for
the children in the hospital and to
help everyone.”
She announced the sororities
in the “Captain and Diva” dances,
where each “Derby Diva” performed a dance and lip synch
duet with a Sigma Chi brother.
Themes ranged from “Grease”
and
Michael
Jackson
to
Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” song.
Sigma Kappa took home the
first-place title for the “Captain
and Diva” dance.
School of Arts and Sciences
junior Chatoia Martin said the
event was fun and supported a
good cause.
“This is my first [time attending an] event like this,” Martin
said. “I’m just really excited, and
it’s going to be a great time.”
School of Environmental and
Biological Sciences junior
Samuel Lopez said he enjoyed
the per formances and was
pleased with the motive of
the organizations.

“I thought it was wonderful
how all of these people got together for such a great cause,” Lopez
said. “I was just reading Kaitlin’s
story, and I think it’s really touching and it makes people aware.”
Delta Gamma “Derby Diva”
Erin Gloor said she was glad Kaitlin
was able to attend the event.
“It brings [her] out to a college
campus and it’s a lot of fun,” said
Gloor, a School of Arts and
Sciences junior. “[The children at
Children’s Miracle Network] are
always in the hospital, and coming to see the performance would
actually help them out a lot.”
The sisters of Delta Gamma
ran onto the stage with their race
car theme, dressed in racer jackets and dancing to songs like
“Crash” by pop artist Gwen
Stefani and “Shut up and Drive”
by singer Rihanna.
Delta Gamma’s philanthropy is
Service for Sight, an organization
that helps provide glasses, Braille
books and more services for the
visually impaired and the blind.
Sigma Kappa “Derby Diva”
Victoria Scott said she is glad the
series of events brought the
greek community together.
“It definitely raises awareness
around the campus,” said Scott, a

School of Environmental and
Biological
Sciences
junior.
“Everyone saw what was going
on [during the week], and I just
hope that we raised enough
money to make a difference.”
Sigma Kappa, dressed in army
attire for their army-themed performance, stomped their way
across the stage as they performed dances to various songs.
Alpha Chi Omega “Derby
Diva” Jill Boden said the event
was a success.
“I definitely had a good time
and I know all the sisters did as
well, especially during the lip
synch,” said Boden, a School of
Environmental and Biological
Sciences junior. “We had a great
time choreographing.”
Although the organizations
last year raised more than
$40,000, a greater amount than
this year, Smith said the
different donations will still be
greatly supported.
“Overall, I think Derby Days is
going out with a bang regardless
of how much money we made,”
he said. “We may not have topped
the years past, but there’s still
thousands and thousands of dollars that were donated to people
who really need it.”

REPORT: Senators argue
policy discriminates gay people
continued from front
“The [lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender] community
and, more broadly, [men who
have sex with men] know that
the Senate will abide to Rutgers
nondiscrimination policy in
regards to sexual orientation,”
Rutgers University Student
Assembly University Affairs
Chair Ben West said.
Advocates and beneficiaries of
blood donations will continue
having blood drives because the
Senate also affirmed that they are
a vital service, and the ban in
place is a federal — not a
University — ban, West said.
After the sentence was
defeated in vote, Student
Activities Committee Co-Chair
Kevin Wild motioned to reconsider the sentence so he could
explain the findings of the
Senate but the motion failed.
Wild said he was upset that
he was not allowed the opportunity to respond to the
concerns raised.
“What upsets me more is that
the Senate took no stance on the
matter,” said Wild, a University

College-Newark senior. “If the
senators who voted against the
findings of the report were so
against our committee’s findings,
then they should have at least
chosen to amend the report to
reflect their views.”
The Senate’s function is to
advise the University’s central
administration of whether the
practice violates the University’s
policy and not whether the practice itself is discriminatory, he
said. The nondiscrimination policy itself mandates nondiscrimination in benefits and services of its
educational programs.
“Some of the objections to the
report’s and committee’s finding
that the practice of the [Food and
Drug Administration], which was
the primary subject of the charge
in this matter, is not a violation of
Rutgers’ nondiscrimination policy
were based on misunderstandings
of the Senate’s function and
authority,” Executive Secretary of
the University Senate Ken
Swalagin said.
Some members and students
attending the meeting argued the
policy goes against the University’s
nondiscrimination policy because it
discriminates against gay people by
not allowing men who have sex
with men to participate in blood
drives on campus.

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“Men who have sex with
men share one thing in common, a sexual orientation
towards men, and therefore the
ban violates our nondiscrimination policy,” said West, a
Rutgers College senior. “The
Senate took the right steps by
keeping blood drives on campus
and by acknowledging that the

“I don’t see how
anyone can argue this
is discriminatory
without scientific
evidence ...”
LOUIS SASS
Graduate School of Applied
Professional Psychology professor

FDA’s ban on blood donations
from [men who have sex with
men] is against our nondiscrimination policy.”
Board of Trustees Student
Representative Josh Slavin said
the sentence should be removed
because it is a clear indicator of a
violation of the University’s
nondiscrimination policy.
“It seems like such a fine distinction to make … to say that’s

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not a violation of the policy,”
said Slavin, a Livingston
College senior.
West said it is clearly a violation of the policy, since discriminating against men who have
sex with men is discriminating
against
anyone
of
that
sexual orientation, including
homosexuals, bisexuals and
transgender people.
“Men who have sex with men
is a group of people with the same
sexual orientation,” West said.
“They’re all sexually oriented
towards men.”
Although this motion will not
allow men who have sex with
men to participate in blood
drives, he is glad it was brought
to the Senate’s attention, he said.
“A lot of students were in
opposition to it,” West said. “A
few were for it, but most were
in opposition.”
About 220 students sent emails to him opposing the motion
arguing it is clearly a violation of
the nondiscrimination policy,
he said.
The Senate argued the policy
follows the federal policy on
blood donor restrictions, noting
the largest numbers of blood
donors who carr y the human
immunodeficiency vir us are
men who have sex with men.

Louis Sass, a professor for
the Graduate School of Applied
Professional
Psychology,
requested that the Senate table
the motion to be discussed in
greater detail at the next meeting, in order to acquire more
adequate statistics and facts that
men who have sex with men
have a higher chance of spreading HIV.
“Personally, I don’t see how
anyone can argue this is discriminatory without scientific evidence
[about the prevalence of HIV in
men who have sex with men],”
Sass said.
Swalagin said it was not the
intent of the Student Affairs
Committee to assert that the
FDA’s policy is nondiscriminatory, which it clearly is.
“The absence of a statement in
the report which condemns or
criticizes the FDA policy could …
be viewed as implicitly condoning
the policy, which was not the
intent of the [committee],” he
said. “It remains the responsibility
of the [committee] to now further
respond to the issue, but it seems
reasonable to expect that a statement explicitly criticizing the FDA
policy and the grounds for that
criticism would be a valuable, germane and timely addition to the
[committee]’s further response.”

RUSA ATTEMPTS
DRESS CODE
RESOLUTION
Racism, gender discrimination and the lack of a professional fashion sense all
took a beating at the Rutgers
University
Student
Assembly meeting Thursday
in the Visitor Center on
Busch campus.
A resolution to implement
a “business casual” dress
code for the assembly’s biweekly
meetings
was
authored by Vice President
Payal Patel, an Ernest Mario
School Of Pharmacy sophomore, and RUSA representative Sean DeDeyn, a School of
Arts and Sciences junior.
Amended to a suggestion
instead of an implementation, the resolution ultimately failed and went back to
the executive committee.
“Not everyone can afford
to buy the clothes that will be
required at these meetings,”
said Latino Student Council
representative to RUSA
Braulio Salas, a School of Arts
and Sciences junior. “We
don’t want to put off other students that may want to join
our organizations by seeming
too exclusive.”
The resolution authors
argued the assembly could
not be taken seriously if
they are to appear lax in
how they dress.
A resolution supporting
the tabling of the University
Senate charge regarding the
blood donation policy against
men who have sex with men
was also passed with unanimous consent.
Another
resolution
passed, condemning the visit
from the Westboro Baptist
Church and a call to all students to wear red on
Wednesday in solidarity
against the protesters.
RUSA was invited to have
a catered meeting at the
Visitor Center by University
President
Richard
L.
McCormick, said RUSA Chair
Werner Born, a School of
Engineering senior.
— Cagri Ozuturk

T H E D A I LY TA R G U M

OPINIONS

PA G E 1 0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

EDITORIALS

Blind exposure
N

ext time you brew your morning cup of coffee make sure you
keep your pants on. A 29-year-old Virginia man was charged
with indecent exposure Thursday morning when he walked
downstairs in only his birthday suit at 5:20 a.m. to make coffee, according to Fox News. Eric Williamson, who does not deny the nudity, happened to catch the eye of a mother and her 7-year-old son walking
down a nearby path, who then called the police. A Fairfax County
Police spokesman said officers arrested Williamson for indecent exposure because they believe he wanted to be seen in the buff.
Williamson, who has since moved out of the home, said he was
stunned by the allegation of bad intentions, explaining he didn’t think
anybody would have seen him at such an early hour. Police have been
going door to door, handing out flyers and canvassing in an attempt to
find out if anyone else had seen him in the nude.
Is this taking it too far? What does not count as a crime these days?
Apparently not much. While Williamson, the father of a 5-year-old girl,
should probably be more conscious of his surroundings, he should not
be held responsible for bearing it all even before the rooster crowed.
The residence was suburb-based, but even in a town like New
Brunswick, where pedestrian traffic is heavy, there’s a simple solution:
close the curtains, it could easily curtail such incidents. The original
purpose of clothing was to protect you from the elements, so they’re
not entirely necessary in the home. But even at 5:20 in the morning,
you can never be certain you are alone.
But what if Williamson happened to be a female? The exposure likely would not have warranted a call to the authorities or unintentional
exposure would still be a consideration. Police say they would not have
looked into the situation of inadvertent exposure was a possibility.
Williamson, who continues to maintain his innocence, plans to meet
with a lawyer to fight the misdemeanor charge. If convicted, he could
face up to one year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
The final verdict — shut the blinds.

Co-ed evasion
P

rinceton University’s recent policy revision to allow co-educational housing for upperclassmen has sparked some interest
here at the University. While students can live in the same
housing unit or residence hall in on-campus Rutgers housing, the units
are single-sex. Princeton’s pilot program looks appealing at first
glance, but it could cause more trouble than it’s worth. University
Housing and Residence Life may have used the housing shortage as
an excuse to evade the question at hand: Is a co-ed policy going to be
a consideration in the near future for the University? College students
should generally be capable of conducting themselves as adults, but
this is easier said than done.
If couples apply to live together, there is no telling if they will still
be together during move-in. Not to mention, should a mid-semester
break up occur (we’re in college — it’s nearly inevitable), the responsibility to find additional housing for displaced students post-relationship failure should not be placed on the University’s shoulders. Some
students think conflicts between mixed-gender roommates are more
severe and more difficult to settle than those of same-gendered roommates, but this is not necessarily true. Have you ever seen a catfight?
They can be downright vicious.
Another argument against co-ed housing is that it promotes pregnancy and domestic violence. Realistically, having the sexes separated does
not deter couples from engaging in sexual activities. It’s a given that having your own room would make it easier, but there is no policy that
restricts somebody from sleeping in a member of the opposite sex’s bed.
Should the University ever approve co-ed on-campus housing for
incoming first-year students, parental reaction would be unfavorable,
at the least. College is — on the surface — about adjustment, branching out and meeting new people. While not every student would opt to
live with their significant other, those that do may not fare as well in
the college setting. Some parents already have trouble sending their
children off to college knowing the pressures that already exist.
Adding in a roommate of the opposite sex will not exactly alleviate
these concerns.
One suggestion is a revised policy awarding the option of co-ed oncampus housing as a privilege for upperclassmen. Select residence
halls could be used as a pilot, comparable to Princeton’s program, to
see if it has a chance at success. The policy may even attract more students to apply to the University.
Is there even a demand on campus for co-ed housing? Many students are happy that they are actually granted housing that doesn’t
involve the word “displaced” or a shuttle to a Somerset hotel. Still, all
students have the opportunity to find off-campus co-ed housing close
to the University no matter their class year, even though it is difficult
and expensive. Princeton’s program will likely be criticized — the only
question is whether the criticism is constructive or disapproving. For
now, the University does not look like it will be following suit any time
soon, but it should not be out of the question.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“It’s ironic that domestic violence
knocks on our own doors.”
Sara Afayee, Undergraduate Social Work Organization vice president,
on the murder of Krystal Skinner
STORY IN UNIVERSITY

MCT CAMPUS

Hate has many sources
T

tough questions. Does hate
he past week has
speech run deeper than
seen
numerous
speech that is intentionally
ar ticles about the
used to harm others? Is the
visit that the University will
defining aspect of hate
soon receive from the infaspeech the malicious intent
mously anti-Semitic, antithat lies behind it or is it the
Catholic
and
anti-gay
malicious effect that it has
Westboro Baptist Church
BEN WEST
upon its subjects? Does hate
Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. outspeech include speech that is
side Rutgers Hillel.
used loosely and uncritically, even jokingly, in conAt first, I was hesitant to address this topic, as it
versation but which is both insensitive and diswas clear that so much has already been said, but
paraging to its subjects? And what about the false
upon examining The Daily Targum and the numerassumptions that lie behind hate speech and may
ous counter-protests that have been planned on
exist even when hate speech is not articulated? Are
Facebook, I realized that a very broad point regardthese assumptions not as dangerous, if not more
ing hate speech on campus has been entirely overdangerous, than the speech that follows?
looked in our ongoing dialogue about the subject.
There is a reason that I ask about the relevance of
But before I make my point, I would like to applaud
the intent that fuels hate speech, the effects of hate
Hillel for its tireless efforts to send a unified message
speech and the assumptions that underlie hate
against hate to the protesters and to the community at
speech. Depending on what we regard as relevant,
large, and to highlight the importance of the diversity
we too may all be guilty of perpetuating hate, either
that the University embodies in a manner that is both
through our intentions, through the effect of our
peaceful and positive in nature. I also would like to
speech or actions or through the assumptions that
encourage every University student to follow the lead
we hold, share and pass on to others. If we see the
of Hillel and the Rutgers University Student
intention of, effect of and assumptions behind speech
Assembly, which have both worked to encourage stuas relevant, we should begin to examine our speech
dents and supporters to wear the University’s scarlet
more critically.
color on Wednesday as a sign of soliIt is extremely doubtful that any
darity against a group who, through
“Depending on
members of the University’s relatheir extreme actions, seeks to provoke in others the hate that they themwhat we regard as tively progressive community use
hate speech with malicious intent,
selves exude.
relevant, we too
as the members of the Westboro
Having applauded the efforts of
the Hillel and RUSA, I would like to
may all be guilty of Baptist Church do; but it is not
uncommon to overhear insensitive
move for ward and begin a more
far-reaching and perhaps contro- perpetuating hate ...” and sometimes hateful phrases that
have a malicious effect on the subversial dialogue about hate speech
jects of the speech or see inconsidat the University.
erate and untrue assumptions go unquestioned.
I think that we can all agree that hate speech can
Examples of speech that is hateful in effect are
be defined as a term for speech — verbal, written
plentiful at the University. Many students still use
and symbolic — that is directed toward a person or
“retarded” and “gay” as synonyms for “stupid.” No
group of people with malicious intent. The goal of
matter how mindlessly these verbal tools may be
hate speech is to defame an individual or group of
employed, the equation of these words with stupidpeople, either because of membership in a particuity implies that those who are mentally handilar social group or because of unalterable biological
capped are idiots and suggests a total disrespect
trait. We know that those who use hate speech
toward members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
attack race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, relitransgender community, whose social identity, gay,
gion or lack thereof, sexual orientation, gender
is being called stupid. “No homo” is jokingly used
identity, disability, language ability, ideology, social
by men in our University community to tell other
class, occupation, appearance and mental capacity
men that sexual advances are not welcome, yet it
as liabilities and flaws that can be justly ostracized.
also perpetuates the stereotype that gay men do
This is the type of hate speech, speech behind
consistently seek to prey on all men that they see,
which lies a malicious intent, that the University will
while also suggesting that advances made by one
stand united against on Wednesday. But to be fair to
ourselves and those around us, we must delve deepSEE WEST ON PAGE 11
er into this subject matter and ask ourselves some

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embers of the New
Brunswick Campus
community
should
know Rutgers Health Services
and Rutgers Occupational Health
in New Brunswick continue to
offer the swine flu nasal spray
vaccine. We have not yet received
the injectable vaccine.

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continued from page 10
man on another are laughable. It
is also not uncommon to hear
jokes about the appearances of
others. But saying that somebody looks like “trailer trash” or
looks “ghetto” may also be a classist statement. By ridiculing the
appearances of others, one chastises another for not meeting
one’s standards for superficial
appearances while also showing
ignorance to the socioeconomic
factors that may prevent somebody from not looking like “trailer trash” or “ghetto.”
Assumptions are just as dangerous as speech. Earlier this

The next clinic will be held
tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
the Cook Campus Center.
Supplies are limited and will be
distributed on a first-come, firstserve basis to people in the following at-risk groups: faculty, staff
and students under the age of 24;
health care and EMS personnel;
children between the ages of 2 and
17 living in University housing or
attending day care on campus; and
parents and caretakers of infants
under age 6 months.

Please note that the nasal spray
vaccine should not be taken by pregnant women, those older than 49 or
younger than 2, those with serious
medical conditions such as asthma
or a weakened immune system, who
must wait for the injectable vaccine.
Persons with a history of severe,
life threatening allergic reactions to
eggs should not receive either
H1N1 vaccine, injection or spray.
Instead, they should contact their
physician to discuss other options
for preventing the flu.

The vaccine is offered on a voluntary basis and is free of charge.
Please bring your RUID. More
information about the H1N1
vaccine
is
available
at
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vacci
nation/. If you have any questions
or concerns, you may wish to consult your private physician, who
can also administer the vaccine.
Influenza activity continues to
increase across the United
States. According to the Centers
for Disease Control, vaccination

is the single best way to protect
against influenza illness. The
University’s goal is to vaccinate
all interested faculty, staff and
students in the priority groups.
You can find more about H1N1
and University-specific information at http://h1n1.rutgers.edu.

year, a Targum opinions letter
[“Rutgers shouldn’t get caught in
open-admissions trap” pointed
out that the University provides
many] remedial courses. Behind
this statement lies the assumption that these courses symbolize that the University has lowered its standards and now
accepts anybody who can read
“See Spot Run.” What this
assumption overlooks is that
such remedial courses undoubtedly benefit many who have do
not hail from schools that enable
their students to become proficient in ever y subject area.
While these courses are sure to
help many students who may
have not tried hard enough when
presented the opportunity to
become proficient in particular

subject areas, they also help
many students who have not had
the opportunity to become proficient in some subject areas.
Another example of a false
assumption going unquestioned
was exposed last week, when the
Student Affairs Committee of the
University Senate introduced a
recommendation that said that
the
Food
and
Drug
Administration’s ban on blood
donations from men who have
sex with men is not against the
University’s nondiscrimination
policy, which includes sexual orientation. Behind this recommendation stood the dangerous
assumption that men who have
sex with men constitute a group
of people who do not share a natural sexual orientation, but who

voluntarily engage in a risky
behavior. This assumption has
been used in the past to justify
far more extreme actions against
these men. Luckily, the Student
Affairs Committee’s assumptions
were successfully challenged
by students and University
Senators, who realized that the
only thing that men who have
sex with men have in common is
a sexual orientation, regardless
of whether or not they identify
within the gay, straight or
bisexual communities.
As we stand united against
the Westboro Baptist Church,
we need to question the intent
of, the effect of and the assumptions that underlie our speech.
Other wise, we too may be
responsible for perpetuating

ignorance and hate on campus.
A good first step to do this
would be by attending “Pretty
Scar y Language Program”
sponsored by Delta Lambda
Phi, Sigma Gamma Rho and
Sigma Iota Alpha tomorrow
from 9:10 to 11:30 p.m. in the
Graduate Student Lounge of the
Rutgers Student Center on the
College Avenue campus. This
event will examine how the
things that we say affect ever yone around us, whether we realize it or not.

Ben West is a Rutgers College
senior majoring in political science. He is also chairman of
RUSA’s
University
Af fairs
Committee. He can be reached at
universityaffairs.rusa@gmail.com.

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Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK

Pearls Before Swine

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stephan Pastis

Today's Birthday (10/26/09) This year is a bit difficult at first.
Consult a teacher to resolve a problem instead of letting it fester.
Imagination provides just what you need to increase your income
now. Buy some new power clothes. To get the advantage, check
the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) —
Today is a 9 — The name of
the game today is passion.
Arrange your environment
and your attire appropriately.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) —
Today is an 8 — Notice how
easy it is to fall into step
with a female friend. The
two of you take off in a
whole new direction.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) —
Today is an 8 — Your energy is
running away with you. A
female can help you get more
centered and grounded. Ask
for suggestions.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) —
Today is a 7 — If you've been
doing your homework, you
needn't sweat the details.
Everything falls into place for
the two of you.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today
is a 7 — Forward movement is
impeded by emotional resistance. Who's resisting? Check
that out with your partner.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —
Today is a 7 — You know what
you want. Find out what your
partner wants. See if you can
add two and two to get four.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —
Today is an 8 — Go for broke.
The gods are on your side, and
so are other people. Go out to
dinner to celebrate!
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —
Today is an 8 — You see that
someone else is suffering. Lift
that person's spirits with nourishing ideas — and food.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
— Today is an 8 — You see a
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into an elegant solution. A
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right touch.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —
Today is a 7 — Others can
accomplish a lot more than
you can today. Don't worry.
You'll get your work done in
plenty of time.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —
Today is an 8 — Choose your
actions to appeal to both male
and female. Guys want action.
The ladies prefer elegance.
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The Rutgers defense, below, stifled Army’s triple option attack and gained 329 yards of total offense
as true freshman quarterback Tom Savage, above, recorded his first road win in the 27-10 victory.

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NOTEBOOK: Harrison
nabs first catches of career
continued from back
“There’s
a
reason
[Harrison] is in there,” said
head coach Greg Schiano.
“He’s shown enough in practice that he deser ves a chance,
and if he can continue to play
like this in games, he’ll keep
getting more touches.”
Harrison pulled in one more
pass to finish with 48 yards.
The Stratford, Conn., native is
behind Brown, Sanu and junior
Julian Hayes for receptions by
RU receivers this season, but
Hayes has not established himself as a reliable compliment to
the starters.
“He went out, stayed focused,
did his job and ran his routes,”
Brown said. “He showed we can
rely on him and that he can
make catches.”

W HEN

SOPHOMORE

cornerback David Rowe looked
across the line, he also looked
up 10 inches.

The 6-foot Rowe covered 6foot-10 Army receiver Alejandro
Villanueva throughout the
game. The Army senior converted to wideout after playing
guard last season.
“I always brag about jumping
highest on the team and Florida
basketball being better than
Jersey basketball,” said Rowe, the
Cocoa, Fla., native. “Tonight I had
the chance to show off my jumping ability.”
Army’s freshman quarterback Trent Steelman targeted
Villanueva five times in the
Black Knights’ triple option
offense, but could not record
a completion.
In the fourth quarter, Rowe
nearly intercepted two passes to
Villanueva, but the 283-pound
receiver knocked the ball out of
Rowe’s hands.
“I thought David played phenomenal,” Schiano said. “He
had a couple of interception
oppor tunities and ever yone
was yelling at him. But
[Villanueva] is 280 pounds and
he is ripping at the ball.
Certainly I want him to catch it,
but that was a great job.”

BROWN

NEEDED

18

continued from back
from 17 yards out for a touchdown
and RU gave up four plays of 20
yards or more on the ground.
“That was just great execution by them,” said senior linebacker Damaso Munoz, who led
RU with nine tackles. “Their
offense is deceptive, but if you
stay true to your keys, it’ll put
you in the right place.”
RU’s defense managed to limit
the scoring by Army, despite 197
total yards on the ground, by continuing to force turnovers.
Munoz fell on a fumble early and
junior defensive end Alex
Silvestro also recovered a fumble
in the third quarter after a solid
hit on the ball carrier by senior
George Johnson.
Redshirt freshman safety
Khaseem Greene recovered a
third fumble moments later
adding to the defense’s threeturnover day.
“That’s our M.O. — we swarm
the ball,” Munoz said. “When it
comes down to it, we play harder
than the team we’re playing. So if
we do that, we’ll cause turnovers.”
RU may have ended the game
with 27 points, but the offense

was not in sync at times. Savage
severely overthrew senior tight
end Shamar Graves and Tim
Brown on the same drive when
both were open for potential
touchdowns, forcing the offense
to settle for a field goal.
“Right went it left my hands, I
knew it,” Savage said on the
incompletion to Graves. “I started stepping backwards and I just
knew it. I said ‘I hope he makes a
heck of a catch.’ Right when it
happened, coach just told me to
settle down and forget about it
and move on.”
Martinek continued to pick up
steam as the game closed out,
gaining 79 of his 139 yards in the
fourth quarter. His two touchdowns bring his season total to a
career-best seven.
Prior to the fourth quarter,
the Hopatcong, N.J., native had
just 3.8 yards per carry on 19
attempts, and he lost the ball on
the Army two-yard line with a
chance to completely ice the
game with eight minutes to go in
the fourth quarter.
“We pounded the ball like we
planned all week,” Savage said.
“That’s what our game plan is.
We have two of the best running
backs and one of the greatest
offensive lines in the country, so
that’s all we needed to do in
these conditions.”

YARDS

to break his career-high in receiving yards for a season.
He did better.
The Miami native caught four
passes for 101 yards, putting him on
pace for 1,205 yards on the season.
Entering the season, there
were concerns RU would be
unable to replace Kenny Britt’s
production. If Brown continues
on his pace, he would finish just
under Britt’s total of 1,371 yards
from last season.
“Any chance I get, I just make
plays for the team,” Brown said.
“I feel I have answered questions
just by going out, playing hard
and catching the football.”

SENIOR

QUARTERBACK

JABU

Lovelace had his most productive
game of the season in the same
place he played the best game of
his career.
Returning to the stadium
where he ran for two touchdowns
and 82 yards in 2007, Lovelace
completed his first pass of the
season, a 33-yarder to Brown.
Lovelace also operated out of
the Wildcat with junior tailback
Kordell Young.

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Matched up against 6-foot-10 Army wideout Alejandro Villanueva,
cornerback David Rowe nullified all five pass attempts thrown his way.

Sophomore midfielder Nate Bourdeau had two of the Scarlet Knights’ four
shots in Saturday’s 2-0 loss to conference rival Louisville.

Bob Reasso has said many
times
MEN’S SOCCER
that it is
0 dif ficult
RUTGERS
to win
2 on the
LOUISVILLE
road.
So when the Rutgers men’s
soccer team traveled to Louisville
Saturday night, it was going to
take a massive effort to get any
type of result.
For 45 minutes the Scarlet
Knights looked like they might
have a chance to steal a point
until the eighth-ranked Cardinals
showed their class and dominated the second half en route to a 20 victory at Cardinal Park.
“I thought we were good in the
first half, but there is a reason
why they’re the No. 8 team in the
country and they showed it in the
second half,” Reasso said. “It was
their senior night and they’re a
veteran team that is powerful,
strong and aggressive. They
haven’t lost at home all year and
they have 11 shutouts, so you
have to give them credit because
they’re a very good team.”

Louisville (11-2-2, 6-2-1) broke
the deadlock in the 58th minute
when J.T. Murray’s pass was
volleyed into the net by Paolo
DelPiccolo.
RU (7-8-0, 4-5-0) pushed players forward in search of an equalizer, but it was never able to
threaten a stout Cardinal back
line. Louisville goalkeeper Andre
Boudreaux did not have to make
a save in the second half and kept
a clean sheet for the 11th time in
15 games.
Louisville forward Colin Rolfe
iced the game in the 81st minute
when he doubled the Cardinals’
advantage. Gerardo Chavez
broke loose on a counter attack
and his cross found Rolfe on the
edge of the six-yard box. All
Rolfe had to do was guide the
ball past sophomore goalkeeper
Alex Morgans.
“They wore us down a bit in
the second half,” Reasso said
about his team getting outshot 121 after halftime. “They are a team
that fights hard and is very physical, and I thought we matched
them in the first half, but they just
wore us down in the second half.”
The Knights had early opportunities to take the lead, but soph-

omores Nate Bourdeau and
Gaetano Panuccio but could not
hit the back of the net.
“We’re not at the same point as
Louisville yet,” Reasso said.
“We’re still a young team and this
was an experience we have to
learn from. This is the type of
game that’s going to make us better in the future.
“We came out flying in the
first five-to-10 minutes and could
have had one or two goals. But
that’s the way this game is,
because if we get one there it
changes the whole complexion
of the game. Now they are chasing the game and it puts us in a
much better position, but it will
always be tough to win on the
road and [Louisville’s] a very
good team.”
Despite the loss, RU still controls its own destiny for a place in
the Big East tournament. St.
John’s knocked off Cincinnati,
keeping the Knights three points
ahead of the Bearcats while
South Florida beat Villanova,
leaving RU just one point adrift of
the Wildcats.
The Knights host Villanova
Wednesday and USF Saturday to
close out the regular season.

Knights shut out by UConn on Senior Day
BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON
SENIOR WRITER

T

he Rutgers women’s
basketball team held an
open practice for its fans
yesterday afternoon at the Louis
Brown Athletic Center.
“We feed off the fans; the
fans give us support and make
us want to play harder,” said senior forward Myia McCurdy. “By
them showing us support it
makes us happy, and we just
want to satisfy them.”

FRESHMAN

BRITTNEY

Kuras led the Rutgers swimming and diving team to a successful opening weekend at the
SWRC Invite.
The Scarlet Knights secured
first place finishes in all four
relay events. Kuras recorded
individual victories in the 100and 200-yard freestyle as well as
the 100-yard breaststroke and
200-yard individual medley.

THE RUTGERS

WOMEN’S

golf team closes out the first half
of the year Monday at the
Farleigh Dickinson Invitational.
Following this tournament, the
Scarlet Knights will not compete
again until they begin their
spring season in March.
In their last competition on
Oct. 10, the Knights finished
third in an 18-team field at the
Rutgers Invitational.

IN

MAJOR

LEAGUE

Baseball news, the Cleveland
Indians
named
former
Washington Nationals manager
Many Acta to manager yesterday and the St. Louis Cardinals
named slugger Mark McGwire
the team’s hitting coach.

HEISMAN TROPHY

WINNER

Sam Bradford will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery.

After honoring its seniors
prior to Saturday’s match against
Connecticut, the Rutgers field
hockey
FIELD HOCKEY
t e a m
CONNECTICUT 3 g o t
down to
0 busiRUTGERS
ness in
its attempt to upset one of the top
teams in the nation.
Though the Scarlet Knights
stayed within striking distance
for most of the contest, the No. 7
Huskies came out on top, picking
up a 3-0 victory.
“I’m so proud of our girls,”
said Rutgers head coach Liz
Tchou. “The last couple of weeks
we’ve been playing better and
better, and we’re actually peaking
so it’s really cool to see them
playing all together and playing
with a purpose to what they’re
doing from freshman all the way
up to seniors.”
Senior forwards Sarah Dunn
and Brittany Bybel nearly converted on several shots in the
second half. It appeared Bybel
had scored on a corner attempt
when the ball found the back of
the cage, but the goal was waved
off by the officials.
Both Dunn and Bybel finished
with two shots on the day, with
classmates Jessika Hoh, Chelsey
Schwab and Kristen Johnson
rounding out the rest of the
attempts for the Knights.
Freshman goalkeeper Vickie
Lavell stonewalled UConn’s leading goal scorer Loren Sherer on
a wide open opportunity and
added several diving saves to
help keep the Knights in the
thick of the contest.
Lavell allowed no goals during
regular play — the Huskies’
three scores all came on penalty
corner opportunities.
“It’s exhilarating. I went in
and I was a little ner vous, but
once things star ted going and
ever ything star ted flowing it
felt good,” Lavell said. “It’s
nice to go in and know that no
one is looking at you as a

DAVID PAL

Senior Kristen Johnson, left, and the Rutgers field hockey team fell to Connecticut by a 3-0 margin on Senior Day. The Scarlet Knights held the Huskies scoreless for nearly 50 minutes between goals.
freshman; they’re counting on
you to play up to ever yone
else’s standards.”
Rutgers held UConn (15-2, 41) scoreless for nearly 50 minutes
in between their second and third
goals, but could not muster any
offense on the day and the three
goals by the Huskies were more
than enough.

“To be honest, sometimes you
get to this point in the season and
you find that the morale is not
where it should be, but I’ve never
had a group like this who struggled
with wins and losses so much but
still was so into practices and playing well for one another,” she said.
While sporting a 2-15 record
and still searching for its first con-

ference win heading into a
matchup with Syracuse Saturday,
Tchou said her team’s determination has never wavered, something she attributes to her six
departing seniors.
“[Our drive is] a testament to
the seniors and their leadership and
what we’ve gone through in the last
four years together,” she said.

The Rutgers volleyball team
continVOLLEYBALL
ued to
0 struggle
RUTGERS
in Big
3 E a s t
SETON HALL
p l a y
Saturday, falling to Seton Hall in
three sets with scores of 25-29,
25-23 and 25-20.
The loss marks the fifth
straight for the Scarlet Knights
and the sixth straight sweep of
the team in Big East play. It also
drops the team to 8-15 overall and
1-7 in the Big East.
“I think we came out a little
late,” head coach CJ Werneke
said. “I think both teams were
ver y similar and matched up
well; we just couldn’t play defensively or get any stops.”
Getting stops against the
Pirates was not just difficult; the
Knights had to contend with one
of the best games hitting percentage-wise of the season.
Over three sets, the Pirates
put up percentages of .485, .389
and .436 — something that the
Knights simply could not contend with.
But RU fixed some of the
errors that have been haunting
the second half of its season,
resulting in a 19-point score
being the lowest of three sets.
“We didn’t have as many hitting errors,” Werneke said. “We
eliminated
some
of
the

JEFF LAZARO/ FILE PHOTO

Outside hitter Caitlin Saxton (10) had another strong performance this weekend against
Seton Hall. The junior recorded 13 kills and 10 digs for her eighth double-double of the season.
unforced errors, but unfor tunately when we fix something
then something else doesn’t go
our way.”

The lack of errors against the
Hall actually helped the Knights’
play tremendously. After a rusty
.111 killing percentage in the first

set, RU responded by posting
consecutive .333 percentages,
enabling the squad to keep much
closer to the Pirates (9-14, 3-5).

Junior outside hitter Caitlin
Saxton continued her strong play,
registering 13 kills and 10 digs
for her eighth double-double of
the season. She leads the team in
kills this season with 291.
“She’s been what we really
wanted her to be,” Werneke
said. “It’s pretty remarkable to
see her sustain that level of play
day in and day out, even when
teams know that she’s one of
our best player and they’re
looking to stop her and they
can’t do that.”
The defeat puts the Knights
in a large hole for the rest of the
season. RU has to win out
against the rest of their Big East
opponents to reach the .500
mark in conference play by the
end of the season.
But as optimistic as one could
be, with Big East powerhouse
Notre Dame still on the schedule
pulling even for the season
seems highly unlikely.
Still, Werneke wants his team
to stay with the original gameplan in hopes that the Knights
can put a strong finish to a season that fizzled to almost nothing after the strongest start in
five years.
“I think we have some important matches coming up and just
continue to stick to the plan,”
Werneke said. “At this point last
year we were 0-7. We didn’t get
our first Big East win until the
third to last weekend. We’re just
going to continue to focus on
playing well.”

Conference expected to be challenging once again
BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON
SENIOR WRITER

NEW YORK — Thirteen postseason berths in 2009, two teams
in
the
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
N C A A
National Championship and a
squad that went a perfect 39-0 last
season en route to its fifth national title in the past decade.

Welcome to women’s basketball in the Big East Conference.
After last year’s perfect campaign, Connecticut was unanimously selected by the coaches to repeat
as conference champion this season.
The Huskies’ junior All-American
Maya Moore was also named
Preseason Player of the Year.
The coaches picked Rutgers,
entering the year with a lineup

BRENDAN MCINERNEY/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Connecticut junior forward Maya Moore, right, was a unanimous
selection as the Big East Preseason Player of the Year.

devoid of center Kia Vaughn, forward Heather Zurich and guard
Epiphanny Prince, to finish sixth.
“When you lose everything at
one time, it is difficult,” said
Rutgers head coach C. Vivian
Stringer in a statement. “We have
faced challenges before but none
like this, losing both the interior
and the perimeter.”
Stringer did not attend the
event due to a death in the family,
and was replaced by associate
head coach Carlene Mitchell.
“As coach Stringer preaches,
it’s not where you start, it’s
where you finish,” Mitchell said.
“We’re a great team right now.
We might not have the names
that everyone is used to us having, but were really excited
about this group we’ve been able
to put together.”
Playing in the Big East is not
something the team plans to
take lightly.
“From top to bottom, the
league is extremely tough.
Think about it: The Big East had
teams win both the NCAA
Championship
and
the
[Women’s National Invitation
Tournament],” Stringer said.
“And to top that, we had two
teams compete for the national
title. That is amazing and
speaks volumes to the parity of
the league.”
As one of three seniors on the
Knights’ roster, senior guard
Brittany Ray is ready and willing
to take on.
“I had glimpses of [the role]
last year; coach Stringer just
wanted to know where the
leadership was coming from
now,” Ray said. “I’m familiar
with it, so I’ve been a much
more vocal leader on the cour t
and I’m extending myself to all
the underclassmen.”
Despite her former teammates’ off-season departures, Ray

and her squad are determined to
go out and prove that RU is still a
force to be reckoned with.
“It’s a ver y big year for us,
because we sort of have a little
chip on our shoulder right
now,” she said. “People have
their doubts, but we just want
to go out and exceed ever yone’s expectations.”
But no one receives a bigger
trial by fire this year than new
Cincinnati head coach Jamelle
Elliott. Having played on UConn’s
1995 title team and serving as an
assistant coach for the Huskies
since 1997, Elliott is all too familiar with the rigors of the Big East.
The newcomer receives her conference baptism in January against
national runner-up Louisville.
“Well, welcome to the Big
East, right? Welcome rookie,”
Elliott said. “I’m in the best conference in the country and that
can be a good or a bad thing.
Not many people can say they
have a head coaching opportunity in the Big East, but at the
same time that can be looked at
as ‘Wow, she has her work cut
out for her.’”
Despite losing some of its top
players to graduation in the offseason, the conference still features some of the biggest names
in the countr y in UConn’s
Moore, Tina Charles and
Tiffany Hayes.
Notre Dame, tabbed as second in the preseason rankings,
sports two preseason All-Big East
selections heading into the year,
as well as freshman Skylar
Diggins, who was named
Preseason Freshman of the Year.
“I think ever y year [the conference loses] really good players who become pros, and yet
ever y year we have new players
who are going to become pros.
It’s a constant stream of good
talent coming in and good tal-

CONFERENCE’S
BEST BREAK
DOWN BIG EAST
The Daily Targum’s associate sports editor and former
women’s basketball beat
writer Sam Hellman takes you
inside Big East Media Day
with a look at what the best of
the conference thinks about
the 2009-10 season.
“There are some really good
players that graduated that
have to be replaced. ... After you
get past us and Notre Dame —
who everybody thinks are top10 teams in the country —
three through 12, you’re probably not going to separate them
very much. In that respect, getting through our league this
year is going to be a bitch.”
— Connecticut head coach
Geno Auriemma on the
difficulty of the Big East
“Kia Vaughn, in my opinion,
is the one that we really struggled with because she’s just a
force down low. It’s funny.
After our last game I told her,
‘You had a great career, but I’m
sure-as-Hell glad you’re leaving because I don’t want to see
her anymore.’”
— West Virginia head coach
Mike Carey on Rutgers’
loss of Kia Vaughn
Check out
dailytargum.com/sports
for more.
ent leaving,” said Notre Dame
head coach Muffet McGraw. “I
would see this as a year where
we’re going to take seven,
eight or even nine teams to the
NCAA Tournament.”

S PORTS

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M

OCTOBER 26, 2009

19

MID-EVENING MADNESS

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RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

BY KYLE FRANKO
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Rutgers men’s basketball
team hosted its annual Scarlet
MEN’S BASKETBALL T i p - O f f
last night
in front of a few hundred fans at
the College Avenue Gym.
The Scarlet Knights ran through
several practice drills before breaking down into a scrimmage.
Here are seven observations
from last night’s outing:
1. Head coach Fred Hill Jr.
called this the most athletic team
he’s had since he took over.
That’s true.
“Coach told us from the beginning that he wants to be a running team,” said freshman forward Austin Johnson. “We have to

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be in the best shape of our lives
because he wants us to get out
and run and wear teams down.”
2.
Sophomore
for ward
Gregor y Echenique improved
both his inside and outside game.
3. Freshman forward Dane
Miller is still raw, but has some
serious hops.
4. Johnson does too, and he’s a
more polished player.
“A lot of times people don’t get
to see the stuff that goes on behind
the scenes and I know it hasn’t been
a great three years under coach
Hill, but I feel like this is the year,
with everything we’ve done in the
weight room, that this is going to be
a better year,” Johnson said.
5. Senior center Hamady
N’Diaye hit the gym in the offseason and bulked up. It will serve
him well in the rugged Big East.

“I feel like [I’ve gotten bigger]. I’ve been working on it a
lot,” N’Diaye said. “I not only
worked in the weight room, but
on my game as well and those
things go together, and I feel
like it’s really going to come
together this year.”
6. Junior for ward Jonathan
Mitchell has championship experience after two seasons at
Florida and finally got on the
court after sitting out last year
under transfer rules. The Knights
need him because he might be
the most consistent shooter
they’re going to have on the floor.
7. Sophomore guard Mike
Rosario is still a streaky shooter, but
he’s the engine that drives this team.
The Knights open the season
Nov. 14 against Marist at the
Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Despite putting forth just 60 rushing yards in the first three quarters, sophomore running back Joe Martinek, left, and the Scarlet Knights took over to pull away from Army in
the fourth quarter. Martinek finished with 139 yards on the ground and he scored his sixth and seventh touchdowns of the year, the highest total since Ray Rice in 2007.

KNIGHT AND DAY
Rutgers rebounds from disappointing loss to Pittsburgh by running over Army in Savage’s first road victory
BY SAM HELLMAN
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

WEST POINT, N.Y. — The conditions
could not get much worse for Tom Savage in
his first road start as a Scarlet Knight.
With the rain pouring down, temperatures
in the 40s and his
FOOTBALL
starting left tackle
benched for the
start of the game,
the true freshman quarterback had his work
cut out for him against Army.
A 32-yard strike to freshman wide
receiver Mark Harrison quickly changed
that as Savage led the Rutgers football team

GAME 7

BIG EAST SCORES

down the field for an early go-ahead touchdown and a lead that the Scarlet Knights
never relinquished.
“I felt like I took a step today getting a ‘W’
in that first away game,” Savage said after a
27-10 win over the Black Knights at Michie
Stadium. “When I was walking out there, I
kind of got the chills a little bit because I had
never been in an away game and it just didn’t
feel real for me.”
Savage finished the day at a 50 percent
passing clip and totaled 164 yards.
“I think Tom played well,” said head coach
Greg Schiano. “He moved in the pocket well
and that’s a ver y good defense. They
[entered] ranked 17th in the country. They

KEY STATS

South Florida
No. 20 Pittsburgh

14
41

LEADERS

Louisville
No. 5 Cincinnati

10
41

PASSING
TOM SAVAGE, RU
10-20, 164 YDS

Connecticut
No. 22 West Virginia
Akron
Syracuse

do some different things [defensively], and I
thought Tom had a good outing.”
RU (5-1, 0-2) first got into the end zone —
without the help of junior left tackle Anthony
Davis, who was late to a team function and
had to start the game on the bench — on a
four-yard run by sophomore running back
Joe Martinek.
“I think he ran well. There is no doubt,”
Schiano said. “Joe’s a strong guy, so as the
game goes on, defenses wear down.”
The Knights’ defense followed suit by
doing what they do best — swarming the ball.
After forcing a three-and-out against the
Black Knights’ (3-5) triple option attack,
true
freshman
linebacker
Steve

Beauharnais got a lick on the Army punt
protectors and blocked the punt, returning it
11 yards for a game-deciding score at the
end of the first quarter.
The touchdown marked the fifth defensive
score of the season and the first of the Saddle
Brook, N.J., native’s career.
“I blocked it, I was looking for the ball, which
was right there in front of me,” Beauharnais
said. “And instincts just took over.”
Though RU gave up just 10 points, the
husky running ability of Army and the triple
option found success against the Knights.
Army freshman Lonnie Liggins ran the ball in

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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK

RUTGERS
ARMY

Total Yds
329
213

Pass
196
16

Rush
132
197

EXTRA POINT
The number of defensive touchdowns the Scarlet
Knights have through seven games this season.
Freshman linebacker Steve Beauharnais’ blocked
punt and touchdown return was the team’s fifth of
the year after a trio of pick-sixes by Ryan D’Imperio, Antonio Lowery
and David Rowe and a fumble recovery by George Johnson.

5

BY STEVEN MILLER
CORRESPONDENT

WEST POINT, N.Y. — The
search will continue, but the
Rutgers football team might be closer to finding its third wide receiver.
After earning the most playing
time of his young career against
Pittsburgh last week, freshman
wideout Mark Harrison made his
first catch Friday night against Army.
“It was amazing,” Harrison said.
“I’ve worked my butt off in practice

and I’m just trying to take one day
at a time, keep working hard and
keep moving forward.”
On third-and-14 in the first quarter, Harrison cut across the middle
and caught a pass at his ear for a
first down and some extra yardage.
The 32-yard reception gave him
the most productive game this season for any receiver other than senior Tim Brown and freshman
Mohamed Sanu.